Development Studies Association
@devcomms.bsky.social
The UK based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
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📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social and Wolfson College seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics ✨
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social and Wolfson College seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics ✨
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
📚 @globaldevinst.bsky.social’s Whitney Banyai-Becker co-authored a chapter on ‘Engaging with knowledge co-production: critical reflections from global doctoral researchers’ in Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory strategies for urban equality.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📚 @globaldevinst.bsky.social’s Whitney Banyai-Becker co-authored a chapter on ‘Engaging with knowledge co-production: critical reflections from global doctoral researchers’ in Co-production of Knowledge in Action: Emancipatory strategies for urban equality.
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Just some of the topics calling for your critical thinking at #DSA2026 👇🏿
▪️Culture
▪️Health
▪️Agriculture
▪️Faith
▪️Decolonisation
▪️Data
Find out more and submit before 30 December 2025:
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▪️Culture
▪️Health
▪️Agriculture
▪️Faith
▪️Decolonisation
▪️Data
Find out more and submit before 30 December 2025:
buff.ly/xJkOMT3
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Just some of the topics calling for your critical thinking at #DSA2026 👇🏿
▪️Culture
▪️Health
▪️Agriculture
▪️Faith
▪️Decolonisation
▪️Data
Find out more and submit before 30 December 2025:
buff.ly/xJkOMT3
▪️Culture
▪️Health
▪️Agriculture
▪️Faith
▪️Decolonisation
▪️Data
Find out more and submit before 30 December 2025:
buff.ly/xJkOMT3
📣 Latest news from @odid-qeh.bsky.social:
✍️ Blogs on COP and the UN;
💻 Online course on forced migration;
📉 Papers on ASEAN export pressure:
...and more.
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✍️ Blogs on COP and the UN;
💻 Online course on forced migration;
📉 Papers on ASEAN export pressure:
...and more.
buff.ly/ktce8in
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📣 Latest news from @odid-qeh.bsky.social:
✍️ Blogs on COP and the UN;
💻 Online course on forced migration;
📉 Papers on ASEAN export pressure:
...and more.
buff.ly/ktce8in
✍️ Blogs on COP and the UN;
💻 Online course on forced migration;
📉 Papers on ASEAN export pressure:
...and more.
buff.ly/ktce8in
What is the future of global development?
An in-person conference at @manchester.ac.uk explores: new geopolitics; development architecture in polycrisis; and global development perspectives.
⏰ Deadline: 3 Dec
More @globaldevinst.bsky.social news: buff.ly/KNgH8lz
An in-person conference at @manchester.ac.uk explores: new geopolitics; development architecture in polycrisis; and global development perspectives.
⏰ Deadline: 3 Dec
More @globaldevinst.bsky.social news: buff.ly/KNgH8lz
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What is the future of global development?
An in-person conference at @manchester.ac.uk explores: new geopolitics; development architecture in polycrisis; and global development perspectives.
⏰ Deadline: 3 Dec
More @globaldevinst.bsky.social news: buff.ly/KNgH8lz
An in-person conference at @manchester.ac.uk explores: new geopolitics; development architecture in polycrisis; and global development perspectives.
⏰ Deadline: 3 Dec
More @globaldevinst.bsky.social news: buff.ly/KNgH8lz
✨ Third World Quarterly’s new Special Issue highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and disciplines, offering critical tools to build more just and plural futures.
Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea.bsky.social
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Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
✨ Third World Quarterly’s new Special Issue highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and disciplines, offering critical tools to build more just and plural futures.
Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea.bsky.social
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Guest Edited by Yafa El Masri, @developmentuea.bsky.social
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First time submitting a conference paper?
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
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#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/nIKkBbm
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
First time submitting a conference paper?
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/nIKkBbm
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
✨ We have 5 reasons you should present + essential tips for crafting and submitting a successful abstract!
Get the advice: buff.ly/nIKkBbm
#AcademicTwitter #ECR #ResearchTips
With each day, hope seems a little harder to find and challenges seem to multiply, writes Peter Taylor, which makes it all the more important to continue seeking hope together.
Peter shares his reflections on the @eadi.bsky.social blog:
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Peter shares his reflections on the @eadi.bsky.social blog:
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November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
With each day, hope seems a little harder to find and challenges seem to multiply, writes Peter Taylor, which makes it all the more important to continue seeking hope together.
Peter shares his reflections on the @eadi.bsky.social blog:
buff.ly/d6cMcVZ
Peter shares his reflections on the @eadi.bsky.social blog:
buff.ly/d6cMcVZ
Ellie Duncan, @ophioxford.bsky.social writes on the latest global MPI report, which presents important new evidence on the experiences of multidimensionally poor people in relation to the climate crisis.
Read the @odid-qeh.bsky.social blog here:
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Read the @odid-qeh.bsky.social blog here:
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November 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ellie Duncan, @ophioxford.bsky.social writes on the latest global MPI report, which presents important new evidence on the experiences of multidimensionally poor people in relation to the climate crisis.
Read the @odid-qeh.bsky.social blog here:
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Read the @odid-qeh.bsky.social blog here:
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IDD Guest Speaker Series: Unrolling Inequalities: Gender, Labour Law, & Collective Action in India’s Beedi Industry
Dr Madhuri Kamtam, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia
Thu 4 Dec 1:30-3pm, Muirhead Tower 109 @unibirmingham.bsky.social / bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85870942312
Dr Madhuri Kamtam, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia
Thu 4 Dec 1:30-3pm, Muirhead Tower 109 @unibirmingham.bsky.social / bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85870942312
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
IDD Guest Speaker Series: Unrolling Inequalities: Gender, Labour Law, & Collective Action in India’s Beedi Industry
Dr Madhuri Kamtam, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia
Thu 4 Dec 1:30-3pm, Muirhead Tower 109 @unibirmingham.bsky.social / bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85870942312
Dr Madhuri Kamtam, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia
Thu 4 Dec 1:30-3pm, Muirhead Tower 109 @unibirmingham.bsky.social / bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85870942312
‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
By @alexheffron.bsky.social and @tom-cb.bsky.social
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By @alexheffron.bsky.social and @tom-cb.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
By @alexheffron.bsky.social and @tom-cb.bsky.social
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By @alexheffron.bsky.social and @tom-cb.bsky.social
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Applications are open for the Oxford International Online School in Forced Migration from @odid-qeh.bsky.social
📆 8-12 December 2025
Find out more:
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📆 8-12 December 2025
Find out more:
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November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Applications are open for the Oxford International Online School in Forced Migration from @odid-qeh.bsky.social
📆 8-12 December 2025
Find out more:
buff.ly/jFCWsOW
📆 8-12 December 2025
Find out more:
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☃️ As an early Christmas present from the DSA we have given you another day to submit papers. The new deadline will be 30 December 2025.
But top tip - don’t leave it to the last minute! 😉
Find out more and submit: buff.ly/nKzKIBE
But top tip - don’t leave it to the last minute! 😉
Find out more and submit: buff.ly/nKzKIBE
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
☃️ As an early Christmas present from the DSA we have given you another day to submit papers. The new deadline will be 30 December 2025.
But top tip - don’t leave it to the last minute! 😉
Find out more and submit: buff.ly/nKzKIBE
But top tip - don’t leave it to the last minute! 😉
Find out more and submit: buff.ly/nKzKIBE
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Join us in Sussex next month to celebrate the launch of Teaching with Tricontinental and explore the exciting new Radical Library at the Global Studies Resource Centre! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bandung-at... @sussexfss.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Bandung at 70: Tricontinental, NIEO and the Return of Non-Alignment
A book launch and discussion, organised by the Radical Library in the Global Studies Resource Centre, and Open University Press Sussex.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Join us in Sussex next month to celebrate the launch of Teaching with Tricontinental and explore the exciting new Radical Library at the Global Studies Resource Centre! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bandung-at... @sussexfss.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
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Fola Aina’s latest chapter explores how weak states and arms proliferation drive instability in West Africa. #Peace #Security #Conflict
Read more: shorturl.at/ZW3uV
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @afrique.lemonde.fr
Read more: shorturl.at/ZW3uV
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @afrique.lemonde.fr
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Fola Aina’s latest chapter explores how weak states and arms proliferation drive instability in West Africa. #Peace #Security #Conflict
Read more: shorturl.at/ZW3uV
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @afrique.lemonde.fr
Read more: shorturl.at/ZW3uV
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @afrique.lemonde.fr
Global development cooperation at a crossroads: what ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?
💻 Zoom, Online
📆 28 November
Join this joint event between @mybisa.bsky.social and the Global Crises and Development @eadi.bsky.social Working Group:
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💻 Zoom, Online
📆 28 November
Join this joint event between @mybisa.bsky.social and the Global Crises and Development @eadi.bsky.social Working Group:
buff.ly/Lpl37Ze
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Global development cooperation at a crossroads: what ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?
💻 Zoom, Online
📆 28 November
Join this joint event between @mybisa.bsky.social and the Global Crises and Development @eadi.bsky.social Working Group:
buff.ly/Lpl37Ze
💻 Zoom, Online
📆 28 November
Join this joint event between @mybisa.bsky.social and the Global Crises and Development @eadi.bsky.social Working Group:
buff.ly/Lpl37Ze
☮️ Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%
Research from @giudifontana.bsky.social, Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha Neudorfer and Stefan Wolff
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Research from @giudifontana.bsky.social, Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha Neudorfer and Stefan Wolff
🔗 buff.ly/sKiK2ir
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
☮️ Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%
Research from @giudifontana.bsky.social, Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha Neudorfer and Stefan Wolff
🔗 buff.ly/sKiK2ir
Research from @giudifontana.bsky.social, Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha Neudorfer and Stefan Wolff
🔗 buff.ly/sKiK2ir
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📌🌎 Don’t miss the new special issue co-edited by our #SOAS #Economics Senior Lecturer Fernando @rugitsky.bsky.social — on:
♻️ 'Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America' for Latin American Perspectives @laperspectives.bsky.social 🌎📚
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/52/5
♻️ 'Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America' for Latin American Perspectives @laperspectives.bsky.social 🌎📚
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/52/5
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
📌🌎 Don’t miss the new special issue co-edited by our #SOAS #Economics Senior Lecturer Fernando @rugitsky.bsky.social — on:
♻️ 'Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America' for Latin American Perspectives @laperspectives.bsky.social 🌎📚
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/52/5
♻️ 'Amazon Rainforest and Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Latin America' for Latin American Perspectives @laperspectives.bsky.social 🌎📚
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/52/5
UK aid is effective at supporting the global energy transition but needs better strategic direction, says @icai-uk.bsky.social
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Pic by Vivek on Unsplash
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Pic by Vivek on Unsplash
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
UK aid is effective at supporting the global energy transition but needs better strategic direction, says @icai-uk.bsky.social
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Pic by Vivek on Unsplash
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Pic by Vivek on Unsplash
📚 Join @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for a book talk with Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah about their new book "Resisting Erasure; Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine"
📅 26 November 2025
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📅 26 November 2025
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November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📚 Join @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for a book talk with Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah about their new book "Resisting Erasure; Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine"
📅 26 November 2025
Find out more and register:
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📅 26 November 2025
Find out more and register:
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"This is not technical language. It sounds like a political signal that the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
The G7 and Global Development Architecture: Gradual Shift or Pivotal Moment?
By Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel In late 2025 the development cooperation architecture or system is being openly renegotiated rather than quietly adjusted. Will it be a gradual shift or w…
www.developmentresearch.eu
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"This is not technical language. It sounds like a political signal that the G7 intends to reshape how development cooperation is organised, coordinated and justified."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398
Why do so many well-intentioned education reforms fall short?
📚 New book from @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Masooda Bano shows how decades of donor-led decentralisation & community participation have failed to resolve learning crises, leaving millions out of school or struggling to learn.
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📚 New book from @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Masooda Bano shows how decades of donor-led decentralisation & community participation have failed to resolve learning crises, leaving millions out of school or struggling to learn.
buff.ly/wySwaMB
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Why do so many well-intentioned education reforms fall short?
📚 New book from @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Masooda Bano shows how decades of donor-led decentralisation & community participation have failed to resolve learning crises, leaving millions out of school or struggling to learn.
buff.ly/wySwaMB
📚 New book from @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Masooda Bano shows how decades of donor-led decentralisation & community participation have failed to resolve learning crises, leaving millions out of school or struggling to learn.
buff.ly/wySwaMB
📢 #DSA2026 Call for Papers is OPEN!
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin.bsky.social
Reimagining Development:
Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 29 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin.bsky.social
Reimagining Development:
Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 29 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📢 #DSA2026 Call for Papers is OPEN!
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin.bsky.social
Reimagining Development:
Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 29 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
📅 8-10 July 2026
📍 Hybrid at @ucddublin.bsky.social
Reimagining Development:
Power, Agency, and Futures in an Uncertain World
⏳ Deadline: 29 December 2025
More info & submission details: buff.ly/xJkOMT3
Day 1: #COP30 in an age of superpowers: how Trump, Xi and Putin are shaping climate action, writes the @odi.global team from Belem.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Day 1: #COP30 in an age of superpowers: how Trump, Xi and Putin are shaping climate action, writes the @odi.global team from Belem.
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buff.ly/3l18eFa
📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social and Wolfson College seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics ✨
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📣 @odid-qeh.bsky.social and Wolfson College seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics ✨
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr
⏰ Deadline: 8 December
Full details here: buff.ly/lk8X6jr